What do you fear? I fear this book will keep being a pile of garbage for a long time
The second storyline of Hitch's JL concludes and it was even worse than the first. Following last issue, the JL was infected by the unexplained goo thing they thought destroyed to make them see/realize their worst fears and do what they thought was necessary to avoid them. Unfortunately, Hitch's script takes a very uninteresting and questionable approach.
- Jess fears the outside world and creates a cocoon to isolate herself from everything (boring)
- Barry fears he's wasting his potential by not going fast all the time and trying to live among normal people (there was some interesting reasoning made by Barry here but I think Hitch over exaggerated his powers making all seem less plausible)
- Arthur and Diana fear they will only achieve peace through war so they act like their Justice Lords counterparts and threaten the US
- Simon fears he doesnt belong anywhere (nothing happened with him)
- Cyborg fears he's a disfigured monster and runs to hide himself (really?)
- Bruce fears his guilt for all the murdered people he didn't save would make him unable to keep being Batman so he's going to let Superman kill him (weird that Bruce uses Jason as an example of one of those he couldnt save when he is very alive at the moment)
- Clark's fear isnt very clear, I dont know if it is that Batman will never trust him or if it is what will happen to Lois and John if he dies; still none explain why he went to kill Batman
After seeing all of this, the black goo we saw in the previous issue reappears talking about fear and how it makes all of us weaker bla bla bla, then Jessica blows it again just like she did in the previous issue. At the end Jessica abandons the JL because something she said in one of the worst dialogues I've ever seen where she didn't explain anything. All indicates there will be consequences for the JL after this, between them and with the world, but there are better ways to do it.